About Shayla
Shayla Kaywood is a licensed professional counselor with 15 years of experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, anger, self-esteem, and coping with life changes in straightforward, practical ways. She helps people name what feels hard and take small steps toward change.
Sessions often include talking through patterns, practicing clearer communication, and building everyday coping skills. Shayla emphasizes practical tools that can be used between meetings. Her experience includes supporting people through abandonment and attachment pain, body image concerns, caregiver strain, and chronic illness.
Background and approach
She also works with issues around money stress, midlife shifts, and finding purpose. These topics come up often during life transitions and major decisions. Shayla brings a trauma-informed lens to sessions.
That means she pays attention to how past hurts affect current reactions. She focuses on reducing shame and building resilience through steady, concrete strategies. She is attentive to cultural context and the particular pressures people face.
Conversations cover communication problems, control issues, guilt, forgiveness, and isolation. Many clients leave feeling clearer about next steps and more able to handle daily challenges. Based in Louisiana, Shayla offers support in English and uses a blend of talk therapy and skills practice.
She encourages people to set realistic goals and to try small experiments between sessions to test what helps.
Evidence-based approaches for online support
Shayla uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear, practical steps. One approach emphasizes skill-building for anxiety and stress - clients learn breathing, grounding, and short behavioral experiments to test what reduces worry. Another approach centers on improving communication and relationship patterns by identifying unhelpful interaction cycles and practicing new ways of speaking and listening.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. Shayla works with each person to set goals and to try methods that fit their needs and preferences. Together they review what helps and adjust the plan as therapy unfolds so it stays useful and relevant.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, quick coping tips, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping momentum toward goals.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, South Carolina
- Languages
- English